Peter Viereck

A Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, PETER VIERECK has had two poetry books published by Scribner’s, Terror and Decorum and Strike Through the Mask, with a third, The First Morning, appearing later this year. This spring the Beacon Press will publish his selected political and literary essays, reapplying the ideals of his “humanistic new conservatism.”He is known on a dozen American campuses for his guest lectures on European history and for his poetry readings.

Poet and historian, PETER VIERKCK earned his doctorate from Harvard in 1942, served for four years in the Army, and has since taught history, first, at Smith College and now at Mount Holyoke. A Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, he has published two poetry books with Scribner’s, Terror and Decorum and Strike Through the Mask, and two volumes of prose. Metapolities (Knopf) and Conservatism Revisited (Scribner’s). Parts of this essay are drawn from his study of the mid-century revolt in poetry in the symposium The Arts in Renewal, which the University of Pennsylvania Press will publish this spring.

Books and Men Poet and historian, PETER VIERECK was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry earlier this year, for his volume Terror snd Decorum. This summer he traveled through Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship, completing his second book of verse. Scribner’s has just published his new booh of prose, Conservatism Revisited, which he calls “a cultural and political credo for the West.”Mr. Viereck holds the combined posts of Associate Professor of History at Mount Holyoke and Visiting Lecturer at Smith.

Recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing, PETER VIERECK holds the combined posts of Associate Professor of History at Mount Holyoke and Visiting Lecturer at Smith. Terror and Decorum, a collection of his lyrics familiar to readers of the Atlantic, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, Horizon (London), and Poetry {Chicago), has just been published by Scribners.

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